The electric car push is on. Sadly, what people save on petrol bills looks like it’s going to be spent on electricity or tax.

Steve Goreham outlines the international push to get our cars and heaters electrified. But the dark alter-implication of electrification is renewables. (No point in driving a coal driven car.) It follows then, that electrification of everything that isn’t already electrificated, will mean more solar, more wind, and then more decimal places on your electricity bill. Welcome to the Bermuda triangle of cost savings in a subsized-mandated-unfree-market. The more you save, the less you have.

We all know wind power is “free”, but somehow costs seem to keep rising in places with more wind power. It’s so unfair:

Inconvenient Factoid: Electricity prices in most top “wind” powered US states rose 2 – 7 times faster than in other states

Read and weep Australians. Pedal faster:

“…on average US electricity prices increased less thanfive percent during the eight years from 2008 to 2016″

Some US consumers are still paying rates in single digits.

For contrast, the Australian situation, is pathos and bathos simultaneously:

Australian households are paying 60 per cent more for their power than those in the US and double their Canadian counterparts after enjoying the third-lowest electricity prices of any OECD nation a decade ago. — Simon Benson

See the graph. Please someone tell me why Texas prices have fallen. Is that shale oil I see? Wikipedia tells me “Texas produces the most wind electricity in the U.S., but also has the highest Carbon Dioxide Emissions of any state.” Ahhh. — Jo